Melville Reeves Hopewell (March 27, 1845 – May 2, 1911) was a
Nebraska lawyer and Republican politician who served as the state's 12th
lieutenant governor
A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction. Often a lieutenant governor is the deputy, or lieutenant, to or ranked under a governor — a "second-in-comm ...
from 1907 to 1911.
Hopewell was born in
Monroe County, Indiana, in 1845, and moved to
Collin County, Texas, with his parents in 1851. After his mother died in 1854, the family returned to Indiana, where his father remarried, and then moved to Kansas, followed by
Gentry County, Missouri
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. Hopewell served in the Missouri Mounted Militia from 1863 to 1864. He graduated from
Indiana Asbury University in 1869, was admitted to the bar in Indiana, then moved to
Tekamah, Nebraska, in 1870. He founded the first bank in
Burt County, Nebraska, in 1873. In 1887, Nebraska Governor
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appointed Hopewell as a district judge, which he served as until 1896, at which point he resumed his practice of law.
[Morton, J. Sterling et al]
Illustrated History of Nebraska, Vol. 2
p. 394-96 (1906)
In 1906, Hopewell was elected as lieutenant governor. He served from January 1907 until he died in office on May 2, 1911.
godeke.org, Retrieved July 18, 2012[(23 August 1906)]
Republicans of Nebraska
''Warsaw Daily Times''
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Lieutenant Governors of Nebraska
1845 births
1911 deaths
DePauw University people
People from Monroe County, Indiana
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20th-century American politicians
People from Tekamah, Nebraska
Nebraska state court judges
19th-century American judges
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